Notice of Intention to take Land for the Purposes of a Road

in Block II, Waiwera Survey District, Rodney County.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute
a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in
Block II, Waiwera Survey District, and for the purposes
of such public work the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby
further given that the plan of the land so required to be
taken is deposited in the post-office at Waiwera, and is
there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by
the execution of the said public work or by the taking of
the said land should, if they have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and
send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

A. R. P.
2 3 8 272, Waiwera Parish II Waiwera P.W.D. Purple.
27590
7 3 7 S.E. 85 and
82, Puhoi Parish " " Ditto Red.
All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District
of Wellington.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.
R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Tenders for Leclanche Cells and for Fire-extinguishers.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1911.

SEPARATE tenders will be received until 5 p.m. on
Monday, 5th June, 1911, for the supply and delivery
of 20,000 Leclanche cells and elements (No. 2) and of 250 (or
more) fire-extinguishers.

Copies of conditions of tendering and specifications may
be obtained at the telegraph-offices at Auckland and
Dunedin, at the office of the District Storekeeper, Christ-
church, and at the office of the Controller of Stores, Wel-
lington.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.
By order,
D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 13th April, 1911.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge
receipt of the sum of 2s. 6d., forwarded in stamps
to the Collector of Customs at Auckland as conscience-
money by some person unknown.
J. W. POYNTON,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1911.-Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1911.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year
of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and intitled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called

the Church of England.
The Reverend Ranald Adney Macdonald.
The Reverend William John Simkin.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.

Mr. P. Battey.
The Reverend John B. Beeche.
Mr. H. Ford.
Mr. T. W. Graham.
The Reverend William A. Hay.
Mr. A. E. Haynes.
Mr. Wi Kaitara.
Mr. C. H. Kendon.
The Reverend William Lea.
The Reverend Henry H. Marshall.
Mr. R. Moffatt.
The Reverend Leslie B. Neale.
Mr. E. Nicholls.
The Reverend Hector C. Orchard.
Mr. A. Parsons.
The Reverend Horace L. Richards.
Mr. C. Strand.
The Reverend Edward Te Tuhi.
Mr. Wirimu Tupito.

Baptists.

The Reverend James Ings.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Elder Orson Douglas Romney.
F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Bank Statements.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and
Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand,
during the Quarter ended 27th March, 1911.

LIABILITIES.

£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 925,267 15 5
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 53,343 14 11
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 17,603 0 10
Government deposits .. .. .. 3,165,510 12 8
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 6,101,004 18 6
Bearing interest .. .. .. 5,117,053 10 1
Total average liabilities .. £15,379,783 12 5

ASSETS.

£ s. d.
Coined gold and silver and other coined
metal .. .. .. .. 2,222,937 15 5
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 101,375 11 10
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 120,742 19 8
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 890 16 1
Landed property .. .. .. 111,248 8 4
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 888,134 11 9
2. Colonial Government securities .. 1,077,974 17 0
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 6,764,506 3 4
5. Securities not included under the
   above heads .. .. .. 664,192 8 2
   Total average assets .. .. £11,952,003 11 7

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000.
Preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New
Zealand Act, 1903, £500,000.
Ordinary shares, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on
preference shares, 8½ per cent. per annum.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on
ordinary shares (10 per cent. per annum, and bonus 2½ per
cent. per annum), 12½ per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on
preference shares, £43,750.
Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares,
£62,500.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such
dividend, £864,134.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of April, 1911.
W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
F. A. MACBEAN, Accountant.